Problem
Government resistance to institutional change
Other Names:
Government reluctance to transform administrative structures Nature:
The general response of government to the speed and scale of global changes has been a reluctance to recognize sufficiently the need to change themselves. The environmental and developmental challenges are interdependent and integrated, requiring comprehensive approaches and popular participation. These requirements are difficult for national and international institutions that have been established on the basis of narrow preoccupations and compartmentalized concerns. Broader Problems:
Government inactionResistance to change Aggravates:
Institutional fragmentationDelays in implementation of social changeIrrelevant institutionsPreservation of obsolete systemsLoss of institutional credibility Strategies:
Managing changeTransforming administrative structuresResisting changeResisting institutional changeAccepting institutional change Subject(s):
Social Activity → OrganizationGovernment → Government
Management → Administration
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems Date of last update
13.03.1997 – 00:00 CET